Social Sandbox MMO Pixel Worlds To Launch for PC and Mac on Steam on June 9

Build, Farm, Trade and Become a Part of a Highly Social Community

Kotka, Finland – June 2, 2017 – Finnish developer Kukouri, the creative force behind the Tiny Trooper franchise, today announced that Pixel Worlds, the highly social sandbox online multiplayer game with charming 2D pixel art graphics, will launch on Steam for PC and Mac on June 9th. With over one million players on mobile, Pixel Worlds introduces cross-platform play, allowing players to enjoy farming, building and trading items as well as making friends within the loyal game community no matter whether their platform of choice is a phone or a laptop.

“Cross-platform support across mobile and PC was the top requested feature by the Pixel Worlds community, and we are beyond excited to finally bring this idea to fruition!”, said Kim Soares, CEO of Kukouri. “We see Pixel Worlds as more than just a game. The social aspect and active community is an integral part of the whole experience and we continuously use both in-game and social media channels to engage players.”

In Pixel Worlds players join the ever expanding pixel universe by creating their own worlds using hundreds of different building blocks and materials. In total there are already close to a 1000 items ranging from furniture to clothing items, with more added in updates every few weeks. The game economy is run by the players themselves, meaning there are no fixed prices nor limits and trading is done while bartering through the in-game chat system in player-designed marketplaces. Players are free to explore other worlds, create platformer levels for others to play and participate in Live Events in order to win some in-game goodies.

Going all out with social media integration into the game experience, Kukouri fosters Pixel Worlds’ community by not only playing the game daily themselves and interacting with players, but also by arranging weekly streams on Youtube, Twitch and Mobcrush, as well as promoting user and influencer videos in-game as a part of their Influencer Program. Pixel Worlds has it’s own Youtube channel with over a million views and the game’s official Instagram account has been growing 20% weekly compared to the average growth rate of 6-8%.

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Pixel Worlds on Steam (PC/Mac, available 9th July): https://goo.gl/ep9vkL

Download Pixel Worlds for iOS: https://goo.gl/mcR0mn
Download Pixel Worlds for Android: https://goo.gl/U8Q5u0

About Kukouri
Founded in 2011, Kukouri Mobile Entertainment is a Finnish game developer bringing timeless appeal to players with a varied portfolio of games. Having more than 30 million downloads across their game roster, Kukouri develops games for mobile, PC and console. For more information, visit http://www.kukouri.com

NINTENDO DETAILS SPLATOON 2 AND ARMS E3 TOURNAMENTS

Fans can watch online as pros and amateurs compete

2^nd June, 2017 – Nintendo is bringing social, competitive tournaments to this year’s E3 video game trade show. Over the course of two days, fans around the world can watch online as both pros and amateurs compete for glory in Splatoon 2 and ARMS, which can only be experienced on the Nintendo Switch console. Fans can stay up late to watch all the action in English at Nintendo’s E3 2017 website*, as well as on Nintendo’s Twitch channels with a chatroom available.

2017 Splatoon 2 World Inkling Invitational – Wednesday 14^th June at approximately 7:30am AEST

For the first time ever, competitors from four different global regions will compete for world dominance in Splatoon 2. The four four-person teams – “Deadbeat” from the United States, “Dynameu” from Japan, “Rising Moon” from Europe, and “Blue Ringed Octolings” from Australia/New Zealand – defeated their rivals in local tournaments which occurred in recent months.

During the show in Los Angeles, teams will battle in a round-robin Turf War tournament that will decide seeding for the next round. All teams will play one another and get a chance to scope out their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses. In the next round, teams will battle in the game’s Ranked Battle modes. The semi-final stage will be a best-of-five battle, while the championship will be best-of-seven.

Australian and New Zealand fans who watch the action livestreamed from the U.S. West Coast will see the winning team of the live-streamed tournament win global bragging rights and a special Splatoon 2 trophy engraved with their names. Announcers for the Splatoon 2 tournament will be avid Splatoon player, Nintendo fan, athlete and broadcaster Jordan Kent, Ashley Esqueda of CNET and Eric Smith from the Nintendo Treehouse. Prior to E3, Nintendo of America will release video content highlighting the tactics, strategies and storylines behind competitive Splatoon play.

2017 ARMS Open Invitational – Thursday 15^th June at approximately 8:30am AEST

This live-streamed ARMS competition will pit four expert competitive gamers from the fighting game community against E3 attendees who qualify at Nintendo’s booth during certain hours. The top four competitors will be selected to face off against four pro competitive gamers.

The eight tournament participants will do battle until a champion emerges to win the coveted 2017 ARMS Open Invitational championship belt. Announcers for the tourney include Super Smash Bros. broadcasters D1 and VikkiKitty. The participating pro players are Alex Valle of Street Fighter fame; Kelsy Medeiros, a.k.a. SuperGirlKels, a professional Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player hailing from Canada; and acclaimed Super Smash Bros. players Daniel “Tafokints” Lee and Marie-Laure “Kayane” Norindr from France, one of the most decorated professional female fighting game players in history.

For more information about Nintendo’s activities and announcements at E3 2017, be sure to check Nintendo’s E3 2017 website in the coming weeks.

Additional Links:

Nintendo Australia website: http://www.nintendo.com.au
Nintendo Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAUNZ
Nintendo Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAUNZ
Nintendo AU on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nintendoau

June 2nd, 2017–MangaGamer announces Dal Segno pre-orders, including plans for free adult patch on Steam.

Happiness. Paradise. Words that mean as many different things as there are people in this earth. What does happiness mean to you? What shape does your paradise take?

http://mangagamer.org/ds

Encounter and spend time with many cute girls on this eternal summer paradise, Kazana Island. From the AI in charge of monitoring and ensuring everyone’s happiness, to the proud student leader, a tomboyish maiden, and an eccentric girl in fancy dresses, all kinds of stories await, shaped by your decisions in this heartwarming tale of romance and the meaning of happiness.

Available June 30th on MangaGamer and Steam, pre-order your copy today on MangaGamer to get 10% off!

We also have one more thing to announce today: D.S. – Dal Segno’s Steam version will be receiving a free, official patch to implement adult content!

Going forward it will be our general policy to provide free, official content patches for all Steam releases  whenever possible, and we will be working to update some of our existing Steam titles with content patches in the future. More details about this new policy can be found on our blog, but expect to see more adult content officially available to Steam customers in the future.

Dal Segno

Kazana Island… A cozy, cool paradise with a nerverending summer.

The protagonist sets foot on this island paradise as a transfer student, greeted by the carelessly drifting “joysprites” in the sky, as well as the energetic island caretaker, Ame, a girl-type AI.

After a bit of a rocky start, he takes up abode in the dorms where a handful of new female friendships await.

She’s a tomboyish beauty, but a bit of a loner: Himari Asamiya.

The embodiment of intellect and beauty, and also student leader: Hazuki Murasaki.

The self-proclaimed “Daughter of Darkness,” with a normal side too: Io Kouzuki.

Always trying to act mature, but still a tease (your cousin): Noeri Fujishiro.

And the girl who takes charge of everyone’s happiness: Ame.

How will you forge your everlasting happiness here in paradise?

A new love is about to begin…

D.S. Dal Segno

Developer: Circus

Genre: Adventure
Price: $39.95
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Text Language: English
Age Rating: MangaGamer = 18+, Steam = Teen

Release Date: June 30th, 2017

ABOUT MANGAGAMER.COM
MangaGamer.com is the world’s first legal download site for English translated Visual Novels. Since its launch in July 2008, it has offered services where fans can download and enjoy popular Visual Novels such as minori’s ef -a fairy tale of two and OVERDRIVE’s Dengeki Stryker right from their home. Don’t forget to visit us on Facebook and Twitter!

June 2nd, 2017–MangaGamer releases Dungeon of Corrpution!

Coming from Hentai Industries, creators of Orc Castle and the Warrior Princess Asuka series, Dungeon of Corruption offers adult gamers a great mix of puzzle solving gameplay and a wide variety of sex scenes with fantasy monsters. Play as either the Archangel of Light or Dark, pitting dungeons full of traps and monsters to test the faith of apostles opposing you! Design your dungeon to wrack up the biggest combos possible and corrupt the challengers to your cause!

Available now from MangaGamer for only $12.95!

Dungeon of Corruption

There was an island continent called Valbella.

It was a land composed of dozens of kingdoms and small, independent city-states, formed from a turbulent history beginning with the Age of the Gods. After much time passed, the many gods gods formed into just two, the God of Light and God of Darkness, worshipped by the people of Valbella. As they watched their worshippers, their apostles, war amongst each other in a battle of Light against Darkness, they spoke to one another.

“Who is blessed with apostles of greater faith?”

The Gods then, on a whim, sent their respective Archangels to the two largest kingdoms which worshipped them with a message.

“Obtain the sacred treasure lost within the greatest ancient temple of your lands.”

However, the greatest ancient temple within Valbell was placed upon the borders of the two kingdoms, which thereby prevented the kingdoms from sending their armies, lest the sacred treasure be lost to war. In the place of armies, the two kingdoms decided instead to send the greatest knight of their lands.

The Apostle of Light – Eliska, the Evangelical Maiden Knight.

The Apostle of Darkness –  Abyss Knight of Anguish, Griselda.

The Archangels (you, the player) will act as lords of the ancient temple, now known as the Dungeon of Trials, and will test the two Apostles with traps and monsters as they search for the sacred treasure within!

Dungeon of Corruption ~Trials of the Female Knights~

Developer: Hentai Industries

Genre: Adventure, Puzzle
Price: $12.95
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8
Text Language: English
Age Rating: 18+

ABOUT MANGAGAMER.COM
MangaGamer.com is the world’s first legal download site for English translated Visual Novels. Since its launch in July 2008, it has offered services where fans can download and enjoy popular Visual Novels such as minori’s ef -a fairy tale of two and OVERDRIVE’s Dengeki Stryker right from their home. Don’t forget to visit us on Facebook and Twitter!

Xbox Game Pass Now Available with 100+ Games

Earlier this year, we announced Xbox Game Pass, a new digital gaming subscription service that gives you unlimited access to over 100 Xbox One and Backward Compatible Xbox 360 games for AU$10.95 per month. To ensure Xbox Game Pass provides the best experience possible for gamers, we rolled the service out first to the Xbox Insider Program, with a limited number of titles to test the features. Thanks to the positive feedback we received from the community, we’re thrilled to launch Xbox Game Pass broadly to the Xbox community in 31 markets and share the entire catalog of over 100 great games.

From, May 24, all Xbox Live Gold members received exclusive Early Access to Xbox Game Pass, and could start their 14-day free trial before anyone else. This is our way of saying thank you to our valued Gold members for their continued support.

Today Xbox Game Pass will be available for all users. That means anyone with an Xbox Live account can start their 14-day free trial and play over 100 games. Subscriptions will be available for purchase online at xbox.com/game-pass, with a retail offering expected later this year.

We know that a gaming subscription service is only as good as its catalog of titles, so we’re also excited to share the full lineup of Xbox One and Backward Compatible Xbox 360 games that will be available through Xbox Game Pass. At launch and beyond, our goal is to make sure there are great games to play for all gamers.

When Xbox Game Pass launches, you can download and play a broad range of games in full fidelity on your Xbox One or Xbox One S console, including blockbusters like Halo 5: Guardians, NBA 2K16 and Payday 2; fun for the whole family in LEGO Batman, Banjo-Kazooie and Viva Pinata; retro and classic games like Mega Man Legacy Collection, Streets of Rage and Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+; and of course, Xbox Game Pass has a number of great first-person and third-person shooter games, including all three titles in the amazing BioShock franchise, Gears of War 1-3, Gears Ultimate, Perfect Dark Zero, Borderlands and more.

But the Xbox Game Pass experience doesn’t stop there. At launch, members can also explore classic Xbox hits and community favorites like Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, The Golf Club, Terraria, Resident Evil 0, XCOM: Enemy Within, Mad Max, Knight Squad and many, many more games.

Our commitment to an exciting catalog goes well beyond launch – each month, Xbox Game Pass will add a new set of games to the catalog so there is always something new to play across a diversity of experiences, genres, ratings and more. For gamers, this means endless play of full-fidelity gaming experiences without having to worry about streaming, bandwidth or connectivity issues. For a complete list of all games offered through Xbox Game Pass, visit xbox.com/game-pass. And be sure to check back in each month to see the newest additions to the catalog.

As an added benefit, Xbox Game Pass members can purchase all Xbox One games in the catalog – and related add-ons – at an exclusive discount, allowing you to dive deeper into the Xbox Game Pass titles you love most, and make them part of your permanent library.

Xbox Game Pass reflects our continuing aspiration and commitment to offer gamers the best product for the most value, and joins the diverse experiences only available on Xbox One such as Xbox One Backward Compatibility and Xbox Play Anywhere. With one low monthly price for unlimited access to tons of games, along with exclusive discounts, Xbox Game Pass is a tremendous opportunity to better meet the needs of all gamers.

Xbox Game Pass will be available in 31 Xbox markets at launch, quickly growing to as many new markets as catalog availability permits. Markets supported include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and United States.

All of us at Team Xbox have been incredibly excited by the positive reception toward Xbox Game Pass so far, and we’re really eager for the entire Xbox community to get their ticket to endless play in the coming days.

We hope you love it as much as the gamers on our team who helped create it!

For the latest Xbox announcements check out Xbox Wire.

SQUARE ENIX AND PEOPLE CAN FLY ANNOUNCE NEW EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP BRAND NEW AAA TITLE COMING TO PC AND CONSOLE 

SYDNEY, 2^nd June 2017 – SQUARE ENIX®, one of the most influential providers of videogame entertainment in the world with award-winning and best-selling franchises such as FINAL FANTASY® and TOMB RAIDER®, today revealed a  new, external development partnership with People Can Fly, the Warsaw-based studio which developed BULLETSTORM and co-developed GEARS OF WAR: JUDGMENT. The partnership will see the companies work together to develop a new high-end original title for console and PC. 

“We’re massively excited to be working with the talented team at PCF in Warsaw, a studio filled with people who really know their craft,” said Lee Singleton, Head of Studio at Square Enix London Studios. “We’re building a game we all want to play which will be the perfect addition to our portfolio.”

“It’s an exciting time,” said Sebastian Wojciechowski, Studio Head at People Can Fly. “We’ve got a great and experienced team in place, and it’s incredible to be working with Square Enix, a world-class publisher who shares our passion and excitement for the project.”

People Can Fly is expanding its team and looking to hire Gameplay Programmers, an AI Programmer, and a VFX Artist. To find out more and view all available positions go here: http://peoplecanfly.com/career/.

About People Can Fly

Established in 2002, People Can Fly is known for recent titles such as Gears of War: Judgment (published in 2013) and Bulletstorm – an original, Unreal Engine 3-powered onslaught of ‘kill with skill’ gameplay and blockbuster moments published in 2011. The studio made its mark on the shooter genre with its award-winning Painkiller series of games for PC and Xbox prior to shipping Epic’s Gears of War for PC. On April 7^th, People Can Fly launched its newest game – Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.

About Square Enix Ltd.

Square Enix Ltd. develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX®, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content in Europe and other PAL territories as part of the Square Enix group of companies. Square Enix Ltd. also has a global network of leading development studios such as IO Interactive™, Crystal Dynamics®, and Eidos Montréal. The Square Enix group of companies boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 130 million units worldwide; DRAGON QUEST®, which has sold over 70 million units worldwide; TOMB RAIDER®, which has sold over 58 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix Ltd. is a London-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.

More information on Square Enix Ltd. can be found at http://eu.square-enix.com/en

SABER INTERACTIVE ANNOUNCES NBA PLAYGROUNDS OWNERS ON NINTENDO SWITCH PRIOR TO UPCOMING ONLINE PLAY UPDATE WILL RECEIVE SHAQ FU: A LEGEND REBORN FOR FREE

Developer shares details on recent and future NBA Playgrounds title updates

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. – June 1, 2017 – As a heartfelt thanks to the patience of its community, independent developer Saber Interactive has announced that anyone who purchased the recently released NBA Playgrounds on Nintendo Switch™ prior to a pending update which will bring online play functionality to the game will receive a free copy of Saber’s Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn on Nintendo Switch when it launches this fall.

“We had every intention of launching online play for NBA Playgrounds on Nintendo Switch within days of release, but, despite our best efforts, it didn’t play out that way,” said Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber. “We sincerely apologize for the delay and want to let everyone know the fix will be coming very soon. But words are cheap, and games are not. So we’re giving everyone that bought NBA Playgrounds on Nintendo Switch before the online play patch hits a free copy of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn on Switch when it is available this fall to express our gratitude.”

Saber will have further details to reveal in the future about how eligible NBA Playgrounds owners on Nintendo Switch will receive their free copy of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn on the Switch when it releases.

Saber has been interacting closely with the NBA Playgrounds community to release title updates for all platforms that reflect player interests. The first update is now live for PC and PlayStation®4, and will be live for Xbox One and Switch within days. 15 new players have been added, including Isaiah Thomas and Dennis Rodman, and Shaq can now be played with the various teams from his career. Challenge Mode, which allows players to challenge each other to online matches, has been added to the PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC versions, and will be added to the Nintendo Switch version once online play is live. Other additions include a new connection manager, which monitors the connection of players during ranked matches and penalizes disconnections from games that are made to avoid losing. Saber has also tweaked the entire shooting system, reworking the timing and adding a meter while clarifying the UI.

Saber’s focus going forward will be giving players new ways to compete with online tournament functionality, and dozens of new players will be released shortly.

NBA Playgrounds is out now for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PC (Steam) as a digital-only title for $19.99. Published by Mad Dog, the game is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB and PEGI 3+.

For the latest updates, visit www.NBAPlaygrounds.game, like NBAPlaygrounds on Facebook, and follow @NBA_Playgrounds on Twitter. Details on Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn can be found at www.alegendreborn.com.

About Saber Interactive

Based in the U.S. and Russia, Saber Interactive is an independent developer whose credits include Quake Champions, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo: Master Chief Collection, and others. The company has multiple development studios across the world making great games and bringing fun interactive experiences to life.

About Mad Dog

Mad Dog is a publisher of digital video games, focused on independent games with a potential for wide appeal. Offering seasoned production, marketing and distribution services, Mad Dog shepherds games through development and testing, then promotes and releases them on Steam, Twitch, the PlayStation®Store, Xbox Games Store, Nintendo eShop, GOG.com, Humble Store and the Mac App Store.